One year ago, the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square proved that Tunisia was not a fluke. Until January 2011, Tunisia didn’t resonate much in the Arab world. It was too small, too Francophile, and too socially liberal. If anything, Tunisia had demonstrated for...

For nearly four decades, the United States' reputation in the Middle East has been strengthened by its ability to broker peace between Israelis and Arabs. That ability is fading as the Palestinians seek to bypass the United States in their statehood bid and Israeli policies...

When Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11, it was an earthquake that shook the entire region, and shakes it still. Egypt had long ago lost its mantle as the leader of the Arab world, but it was certainly its center of gravity. How Egypt emerges from its current uncertainty...

June 9, 2010Bread in Jordan will soon be delicious and nutritious. Last month, Jordan’s health ministry launched a plan to fortify domestically produced bread with vitamin D in an effort to curb the country’s staggering rates of vitamin D deficiency.